Main description:

Based on extensive clinical experience, this book provides authoritative guidance and practical tools in a challenging area for child mental health professionals. The authors explain the many possible causes of problem sexual behaviors and demonstrate assessment and treatment procedures that have been shown to work with 4- to 11-year-olds and their families. Four chapter-length case examples illustrate how to integrate elements of cognitive-behavioral therapy, play and expressive therapies, and family-based approaches. Helpful reproducible worksheets and forms can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

Contents:

1. Children with Sexual Behavior Problems: An Introduction
2. Differentiating Normative Childhood Sexuality from Sexual Behavior Problems
3. The Climate of Childhood Sexualization
4. Assessment of Young Children with Sexual Behavior Problems
5. Consensus-Based Treatment Areas and Suggestions for Work with Primary Caregivers
6. The Boundary Project Model
7. The Case of Kayla
8. The Case of Thomas
9. The Case of Jenna
10. The Case of Lorenzo
Epilogue
Resources